Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

African elephant --- Mammal populations --- Geographic information systems

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Ivory industry - Corrupt practices - Africa --- African elephant - Effect of poaching on --- African elephant - Effect of hunting on --- African elephant - Conservation --- Poaching - Political aspects - Africa --- Ivory industry - Corrupt practices --- Ivory industry --- African elephant --- Poaching --- Corrupt practices --- Effect of poaching on. --- Effect of hunting on. --- Political aspects --- Corrupt practices. --- Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora --- Afrika

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Because of their enormous size, elephants have long been irresistible for kings as symbols of their eminence. In early civilizations—such as Egypt, Mesopotamia, the Indus Civilization, and China—kings used elephants for royal sacrifice, spectacular hunts, public display of live captives, or the conspicuous consumption of ivory—all of them tending toward the elephant’s extinction. The kings of India, however, as Thomas R. Trautmann shows in this study, found a use for elephants that actually helped preserve their habitat and numbers in the wild: war.Trautmann traces the history of the war elephant in India and the spread of the institution to the west—where elephants took part in some of the greatest wars of antiquity—and Southeast Asia (but not China, significantly), a history that spans 3,000 years and a considerable part of the globe, from Spain to Java. He shows that because elephants eat such massive quantities of food, it was uneconomic to raise them from birth. Rather, in a unique form of domestication, Indian kings captured wild adults and trained them, one by one, through millennia. Kings were thus compelled to protect wild elephants from hunters and elephant forests from being cut down. By taking a wide-angle view of human-elephant relations, Trautmann throws into relief the structure of India’s environmental history and the reasons for the persistence of wild elephants in its forests.

Elephants --- Asiatic elephant --- Forest conservation --- War use --- History --- Ecology --- India --- History, Military --- Kings and rulers --- Conservation of forests --- Forest preservation --- Forests and forestry --- Preservation of forests --- Nature conservation --- Deforestation --- Asian elephant --- Elephant, Asian --- Elephant, Asiatic --- Elephas indicus --- Elephas maximus --- Indian elephant --- Elephas --- Elephantidae --- Pachyderms --- Proboscidea (Mammals) --- History. --- Conservation --- Control --- History, Military. --- Indland --- Ḣindiston Respublikasi --- Republic of India --- Bhārata --- Indii︠a︡ --- Inde --- Indië --- Indien --- Sāthāranarat ʻIndīa --- Yin-tu --- Bharat --- Government of India --- インド --- Indo --- هند --- Индия --- War use&delete& --- Ecology&delete& --- Asiatic elephant. --- Forest conservation. --- Kings and rulers. --- Asiatischer Elefant. --- Indischer Elefant. --- Kriegführung. --- Animals --- Ecology. --- War use. --- India. --- Elephants - War use - India - History --- Asiatic elephant - India - History --- Asiatic elephant - Ecology - India - History --- Forest conservation - India - History --- India - History, Military --- India - Kings and rulers - History --- environment, environmental, species, history, historical, animals, nonhuman, elephant, anthropology, anthropologist, symbol, symbolism, significance, civilizations, ancient world, egypt, mesopotamia, indus, china, royalty, extinction, endangered, india, habitat, war, warfare, battles, fighting, army, military, militia, antiquity, southeast asia, domestic, domestication, capture, captivity, ecology, asian.

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

To all those who witnessed his extraordinary conquests, from Albania to India, Alexander the Great appeared invincible. How Alexander himself promoted this appearance-how he abetted the belief that he enjoyed divine favor and commanded even the forces of nature against his enemies-is the subject of Frank L. Holt's absorbing book. Solid evidence for the "supernaturalized" Alexander lies in a rare series of medallions that depict the triumphant young king at war against the elephants, archers, and chariots of Rajah Porus of India at the Battle of the Hydaspes River. Recovered from Afghanistan and Iraq in sensational and sometimes perilous circumstances, these ancient artifacts have long animated the modern historical debate about Alexander. Holt's book, the first devoted to the mystery of these ancient medallions, takes us into the history of their discovery and interpretation, into the knowable facts of their manufacture and meaning, and, ultimately, into the king's own psyche and his frightening theology of war. The result is a valuable analysis of Alexander history and myth, a vivid account of numismatics, and a spellbinding look into the age-old mechanics of megalomania.

Coins, Greek. --- Coins, Ancient. --- Elephants in numismatics. --- Ancient coins --- Antieke munten --- Coins [Ancient ] --- Coins [Greek ] --- Elephants in numismatics --- Eléphants dans la numismatique --- Greek coins --- Monnaies -- Antiquité --- Monnaies antiques --- Monnaies de l'Antiquité --- Monnaies grecques --- Munten [Antieke ] --- Munten [Griekse ] --- Munten van de oudheid --- Numismatiek [Olifanten in de ] --- Numismatique [Eléphants dans la ] --- Olifanten in de numismatiek --- Alexander, --- Numismatics. --- Elephant (in numismatics) --- Alejandro, --- Alekjhāṇḍara, --- Aleksandar, --- Aleksander, --- Aleksandr, --- Alekʻsandre, --- Aleksandros bar Filipos, --- Aleksandŭr, Makedonski, --- Alessandro, --- Alexander --- Alexandre, --- Alexandros --- Alexandros, --- Alexandros, Megalos, --- Alexandru, --- Alexantros, --- Iskandar, --- Maḳdonya, Aleksandros bar Filipos, --- Makedonski, Aleksandŭr, --- Megalexandros, --- Megas Alexandros, --- Nagy Sándor, --- Sikandar, --- Iskender, --- Μέγας Ἀλέξανδρος, --- Ἀλέξανδρος, --- Ἀλέξανδρος --- אלכסנדר בן פיליפוס, --- אלכסנדר, --- اسكندر كبير --- اسکندر اعظم --- سکندراعظم --- Numismatics --- Aleksandŭr, --- Александър, --- Македонски, Александър, --- Coins, Ancient --- Coins, Greek --- Alexander the Great --- Alexander, -- the Great, -- 356-323 B.C. -- Numismatics.. --- Coins, Ancient.. --- Coins, Greek.. --- afghanistan. --- alexander the great. --- ancient history. --- ancient medallions. --- battle of the hydaspes river. --- biographical. --- biography. --- conquests. --- discussion books. --- elephant medallions. --- european history. --- hellenistic culture. --- hellenistic period. --- hellenistic society. --- historians. --- historical perspective. --- india. --- iraq. --- megalomania. --- myths and legends. --- nonfiction. --- numismatics. --- popular history. --- rajah porus. --- retrospective. --- supernatural success. --- theology of war. --- war. --- warfare.

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

L'ouvrage présente les designers en avance sur leur temps, afin de découvrir la manière dont ils abordent l'avenir du design. Ouvrage de référence sur le design de pointe.

Design 2000 --- -745.039 --- design 21e eeuw --- CAD, design en industriële vormgeving in de 21e eeuw --- 745.039 --- Design industriel --- Mobilier de bureau --- Aisslinger Werner --- Arad Ron --- Atfield Jane --- Azumi Tomoko --- Babylon Design --- Bartoli Design --- Bergne Sebastian --- Blumer Ricardo --- Bohlin Jonas --- Bouroullec Erwin --- Bouroullec Ronan --- Brown Julian --- Buchan Debbie Jane --- Campana F. & H. --- Citterio Antonio --- Dahlström Björn --- Dietrich Emmanuel --- Dumoffice --- Dyson James --- Ecco Design --- El Ultimo Grito --- Elephant Design --- Fukasawa Naoto --- Gady Jean-Marc --- Giovannoni Stefano --- Grcic Konstantin --- Gutjahr Bibi --- Hecht Sam --- Helfet Keith --- Hilton Matthew --- Hollington Geoff --- Hosoe Isao --- IXI --- Inflate --- Iosa Ghini Massimo --- Irvine James --- Ive Jonathan --- Jam --- Jongerius Hella --- Kawasaki Kazuo --- King-Miranda --- Kirk Tom --- Klug Ubald --- Koskinen Harri --- Lassus Kristiina --- Lazzeroni Roberto --- Leijn Isabelle --- Levy Arik --- Lissoni Piero --- Lovegrove Ross --- Lunar Design --- Mari Enzo --- Marriott Michael --- Marston Sharon --- Maurer Ingo --- Mays J --- Meda Alberto --- Morrison Jasper --- Mourgue Pascal --- N2 Design --- Newson Marc --- Pearson Lloyd --- Peart Stephen --- Pensi Jorge --- Pezzetta Roberto --- Pillet Christophe --- Powell Seymour --- Radi Designers --- Raman Ingegerd --- Rashid Karim --- Rasulo Prospero --- Rivieran Design Studio --- Salli Timo --- Sandell Thomas --- Sansoni Marta --- Santo & Adolfsdóttir --- Schamburg + Alvisse --- Schreyer Peter --- Seymour Jerszy --- Sodeau Michael --- SowdenDesign --- Starck Philippe --- Sudo Reiko --- Suppanen Ilkka --- Sydney 612 --- Szekely Martin --- TKO --- Tangerine --- Thun Matteo --- Tomita Kazuhiko --- Visser Arnout --- Vitrac Jean-Pierre --- Wallén Pia --- Wanders Marcel --- Wettstein Robert --- Yamanaka Kazuhiro --- Yardley Helen --- Yellow Diva --- Young Michael --- Design-21ste eeuw --- enge 770.6 --- Arad, Ron --- Bergne, Sebastian --- Blumer, Riccardo --- Dahlström, Björn --- Dyson, James --- Hilton, Matthew --- Irvine, James --- Jongerius, Hella --- Kawasaki, Kazuo --- Koskinen, Harri --- Leijn, Isabelle --- Mari, Enzo --- Maurer, Ingo --- Meda, Alberto --- Newson, Marc --- Peart, Stephen --- Pensi, Jorge --- Pillet, Christophe --- Rashid, Karim --- Salli, Timo --- Schreyer, Peter --- Sodeau, Michael --- Sony --- Suppanen, Ilkka --- Szekely, Martin --- Thun, Matteo --- Visser, Arnout --- Vitrac, Jean-Pierre --- Wanders, Marcel --- elektrische apparaten --- lampen --- design [discipline] --- Applied arts. Arts and crafts --- Architecture --- Design --- eigen tijd --- Mobilier --- Industrial design --- History --- Forecasting --- Design ; 2000 --- -Design --- Histoire --- Prévision --- Design, Industrial --- Mechanical drawing --- New products --- Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.) --- -Architecture --- meubelkunst --- twintigste eeuw --- 21e eeuw --- 772.6 --- architectuur --- geschiedenis --- meubelen --- mode --- productdesign --- Starck, Philippe --- textiel --- verlichting --- 745.036 --- Campana F. & H --- design --- productdesign, historisch, 1945-, algemeen --- Design - History - 20th century - Catalogs --- Design - Forecasting - Catalogs --- Industrial design - Forecasting - Catalogs